Album Summary
Performers
Matthias Spaeter (Theorbo)
Ferran Savall (Theorbo)
Jordi Savall (Vielle)
Xavier Puertas (Violin)
Luca Guglielmi (Harpsichord)
Luca Guglielmi (Organ)
Pierre Hamon (Flute)
Riccardo Minasi (Violin)
Notes & Reviews:
"Jordi Savall devised this music for Caravaggio exhibition in Barcelona... A haunting 'Cantus Caravaggio' recurs throughout, opening and closing with austere flute. Savall's original contributions include an inventive passacaglia, as well as a terrifying quasi-funeral march, and pieces based on extant 17th-century music chosen particularly for its intense dissonance and seeming modernity... SACD sound greatly enhances the immediacy of winds, strings, and Ferran Savall's bleak voice, in this extraordinary conception." -BBC Music Magazine *****
"SACD sound greatly enhances the immediacy of winds, strings, and Ferran Savall's bleak voice, in this extraordinary conception." -BBC Music Magazine
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Works Details
Savall, Jordi : Lachrimæ Caravaggio, for early music ensemble - Performers: Matthias Spaeter (Theorbo); Ferran Savall (Theorbo); Jordi Savall (Vielle); Xavier Puertas (Violin); Luca Guglielmi (Harpsichord); Luca Guglielmi (Organ); Pierre Hamon (Flute); Riccardo Minasi (Violin)
- Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI
- Running Time: 72 min. 5 sec.
- Period Time: Contemporary
- Written: 2005-2006




























